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This is a spinoff from my TL "A different WWII".
ITTL it is assumed that because of British Empire's total collapse at the hand of the Axis (also including Vichy France as a full partner, and temporarily the USSR as well, before it attacks fascist Europe in reverse Barbarossa) during early WWII, the panicked British Dominions (except South Africa, which becomes an Axis client) enter a political union with the USA.
The TL assumes that the extraordinary circumstances of the BE's collapse kickstart near-immediate US statehood for Dominion states and provinces, but if you find it too unplausible, do assume that the Dominions enter a confederal association with the USA instead, as more tightly bound "American Dominions" (they have full autonomy in internal matters, but foreign affairs, security, ctizenship, economic and monetary union, are the purview of Washington, and governor-generals are appointed by POTUS on the advice of the Dominion's government) and progress to US statehood after a generation.
Moreover, British colonies in the Americas and the Pacific islands become US territories, and get statehood after desegregation. Puerto Rico is butterflied into statehood at the same time as British West Indies, Philippines are butterflied into staying an American Commonwelath and may or may not ever progress to statehood.
My questions are:
How would the various ex-British colonies be arranged, to become US states ? No new state should ever be less popolous or smaller than an original "48" US state (e.g. Prince Edward's Island is merged with Nova Scotia) ?
When would New Guinea become a state, if any ?
Does the Philippines ever progress to statehood, and if so, when and how many states do they become ?
Can any other Caribbean or Central American state be butterflied into seeking union with the USA by BWI and Puerto Rico's example ?
Do OTL Canadian and Australian territories stay US territories up to 2009 ?
Depending on whether Canadian and Anzus provinces/states become US states in 1940s or 1960s, before or after Alaska and Hawaii (which do it roughly on schedule), the expanded US jump from 48 to 62 in 1940s, then 64 by 1960, or from 48 to 50 in 1960, then quickly to 64.
The other states mentioned above gradually join, mostly in 1960s-1980s.
How would the US stars in the flag be arranged about, as all these new states join ?
Is it likely that this expansion can break the 435-seat deadlock on the size of the House or Representatives and if so, how many new seats would be created ?
How would all these new states influence US politics, parties, and elections ?
How about any major effects on culture (e.g. I assume cultural resistance to health service would be substantially weakened, and desgregation accelerated, even if this is a TL where eventually US and fascist Europe end fighting USSR and Japan together, so Communism, not Fascism, becomes the pariah ideology after WWII, and net effects on desegregation likely cancel themselves out) and economy (e.g. I assume a TVA-like agency would be created for the Great Lakes region).
Is a name-change for the US likely, and if so, which would it be ?
ITTL it is assumed that because of British Empire's total collapse at the hand of the Axis (also including Vichy France as a full partner, and temporarily the USSR as well, before it attacks fascist Europe in reverse Barbarossa) during early WWII, the panicked British Dominions (except South Africa, which becomes an Axis client) enter a political union with the USA.
The TL assumes that the extraordinary circumstances of the BE's collapse kickstart near-immediate US statehood for Dominion states and provinces, but if you find it too unplausible, do assume that the Dominions enter a confederal association with the USA instead, as more tightly bound "American Dominions" (they have full autonomy in internal matters, but foreign affairs, security, ctizenship, economic and monetary union, are the purview of Washington, and governor-generals are appointed by POTUS on the advice of the Dominion's government) and progress to US statehood after a generation.
Moreover, British colonies in the Americas and the Pacific islands become US territories, and get statehood after desegregation. Puerto Rico is butterflied into statehood at the same time as British West Indies, Philippines are butterflied into staying an American Commonwelath and may or may not ever progress to statehood.
My questions are:
How would the various ex-British colonies be arranged, to become US states ? No new state should ever be less popolous or smaller than an original "48" US state (e.g. Prince Edward's Island is merged with Nova Scotia) ?
When would New Guinea become a state, if any ?
Does the Philippines ever progress to statehood, and if so, when and how many states do they become ?
Can any other Caribbean or Central American state be butterflied into seeking union with the USA by BWI and Puerto Rico's example ?
Do OTL Canadian and Australian territories stay US territories up to 2009 ?
Depending on whether Canadian and Anzus provinces/states become US states in 1940s or 1960s, before or after Alaska and Hawaii (which do it roughly on schedule), the expanded US jump from 48 to 62 in 1940s, then 64 by 1960, or from 48 to 50 in 1960, then quickly to 64.
The other states mentioned above gradually join, mostly in 1960s-1980s.
How would the US stars in the flag be arranged about, as all these new states join ?
Is it likely that this expansion can break the 435-seat deadlock on the size of the House or Representatives and if so, how many new seats would be created ?
How would all these new states influence US politics, parties, and elections ?
How about any major effects on culture (e.g. I assume cultural resistance to health service would be substantially weakened, and desgregation accelerated, even if this is a TL where eventually US and fascist Europe end fighting USSR and Japan together, so Communism, not Fascism, becomes the pariah ideology after WWII, and net effects on desegregation likely cancel themselves out) and economy (e.g. I assume a TVA-like agency would be created for the Great Lakes region).
Is a name-change for the US likely, and if so, which would it be ?
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